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James Russell was transported on the Lord Lyndoch, departing 30th May 1833 and arriving 18th Oct 1833 with 330 passengers.
1838 Voyage - Lord Lyndoch. Surgeon Superintendence; Doctor Pineo, From the Surgeons Notes; " Total Embarked; 330 Male Convicts. 19 Died on Passage. 8 Died of Scurvy, 11 of Old age and diseases contracted previously to embarked which could not be detected ...... An accident occurred whereby 16 men were dreadfully scolded with boiling tea. many of them from the shoulders down to their knees.. 112 were sent to the Sydney Hospital on arrival "
Lord Lyndoch (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 129 (66) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
James Russell, aged 23, for stealing a silk handkerchief, the property of John Spears, and having been convicted before, ordered for 14 years ; Nottingham Mercury, 27 Oct 1832. National Archives, HO-9-1_5. Cumberland Hulk Records. Page 34/44. Received from Nottingham, 26 Oct 1832. James Russell, age 23, Stealing a silk handkerchief, Tried Nottingham, 17 Oct 1832, 14 years, NSW 24 May 1833.
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Samuel Williamson, Samuel Ward, and George Thompson were convicted of being rogues and vagabonds, being found in a boat on the canal attempting to commit felony, and were severally ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour three calendar months in the House of Correction. Nottingham and Newark Mercury, 28 April 1832. POLICE OFFICE, NOTTINGHAM. Sept 21,— Before the Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oldknow, Samuel Williamson and Samuel Ward were committed to the Jail for trial at the sessions for stealing eighty pounds weight of beef and eight pounds weight of mutton the property of Barwick. Nottingham Review, 28 Sept 1832. Robbery of a Butcher's Shop. Samuel Williamson, aged 22, and Samuel Ward, ID, were charged with stealing a quantity of meat.— Mr. Hurst called William Barwick, butcher. New-street, who said that he had locked about six stone of beef and a shoulder mutton in his shop at night of September Kith, and next morning he missed it—Mary Williamson, sister the older prisoner, lived with her mother in the Robin Hood yard ; between three and four o’clock on the Sunday morning, the prisoners brought quantity of meat, which they put in a hole under the stairs; part of the beef was afterwards chopped up.—Elizabeth Williamson, the mother, confirmed the fact of the meat being her house. —Robert Lineker, constable, went the house on the forenoon of Sunday, and took away the meat; the prisoner now identified two pieces of the meat by marks in the cutting.—Guilty. Seven years’ transportation. Nottingham Review, 19 Oct 1832. The following convicts were removed from our town jail on Wednesday evening last, under the care of Mr. Vason and assistants, to be put on board the Cumberland hulk, off Chatham, viz; Samuel Williamson, Samuel Ward, William Shelton, and William Maloney, sentenced to be transported for seven years; John Palethorpe, James Russell, and Thomas Geary for fourteen years; and John Walker for the term of his natural life. Nottingham Review, 26 Oct 1832.